RISE, a competitive funding program, provides financial support for faculty working at USC's system campuses and online bachelor's degree completion programs to conduct research and scholarly activities during the summer months. The four-year campus RISE awards are funded in collaboration with the chancellors at USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate. 

2024 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title	College
Aghasafari, Sahar	ChemArtistry: Integrating Media Arts into the Study of Fundamental Chemistry	Lancaster
Bellanca, Mary Ellen	Manuscript Documents on Dorothy Wordsworth's "Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland"	Sumter
Burns, Francis Marion	Student Retention and Success in the USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative	Salkehatchie
Gerald, Amy	The Black Grimkés in Charleston: Building Public Memory from the Trauma of Slavery	Lancaster
Judge, Christopher	Searching for Additional Evidence of 16th Century Spanish Artifacts from Excavation’s at the Mulberry Site, Kershaw County, South Carolina.	Lancaster
Kunka, Andrew James	So You Think You Know Ambush Bug: Testing the Limits of Superheroes	Sumter

 

2024 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title	College
D'Antonio, Edward Co-PI: Montie, Eric	Mapping Spawning Aggregations of Sciaenid Species in the May River Estuary Using Passive Acoustics, Molecular Taxonomy, and Quantitative PCR	Beaufort
Davis, Daniel Jonathan	How Social Media Changes Institutions: Exploring the Issue of Water Equity Amidst the 2022 Jackson Mississippi Water Crisis	Upstate
Davis, Kara L	Impact of a Medical-Legal Partnership on Patient Healthcare Utilization and Costs	Upstate
Egbue, Ona	Charging Forward: Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges Facing Smart Charging Infrastructure for Plug-in Electric Vehicles	Upstate
Haratine, Timothy Parker	Anselm of Canterbury on Sin and Evil: A Philosophical Analysis	Aiken
Hernandez-Laroche, Araceli	Theorizing the Public Humanities (Special Topic Issue for the PMLA)	Upstate
Lahar, Cindy J.	USCB Global Learning Experience Project: Video capture in Cambodia	Beaufort
McCormick, Robert B.	The United States and the Wartime Career and Escape of Andrija Artukovic	Upstate
McCraw, Benjamin William	Collective Faith: The Social Epistemology of Religious Commitments	Upstate
Miller, Matthew L.	Belonging is Far from Home: Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille	Aiken
Miller, Neil Eugene	Ionospheric Disturbances due to the Sunspot Cycle and Earthquakes	Aiken
Mills, Mary K.	Preparing the manuscript: Egg development in Stomoxys calcitrans and Culicoides sonorensis	Aiken
Odhiambo, Calvin	Social Epidemiology of Racial Disparities in Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	Upstate
Pazda, Adam	Examining the dehumanization of people with schizophrenia	Aiken
Placek, Matthew	Examining the Effectiveness of the Dictator’s Digital Toolkit: Digital Media Use, Misinformation, and Censorship’s Impact on Regime Support in Autocracies	Upstate
Saracino, Patrick George	Low Energy Availability Prevalence, Dietary Habits, and Sleep Quality in Female ROTC Cadets	Upstate
Shehi Herr, Monika	Making a Baby in South Carolina - A Book Exploring the Causes of Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates in Upstate, South Carolina	Upstate
Skees, Murray W	Data: A Ubiquitous Knowledge-Commodity	Beaufort
Smith, Olivia Katherine	Belief in misinformation: The impact of correction type and timing of correction	Aiken
Stolz, Nolan	Composing "Desert 66" from the Route 66 Suite for Orchestra	Upstate
Swain, Laura	Differentiating the role of acetaminophen on cognitive and affective pain empathy	Aiken
Wade, Julie	Growth Opportunities, Job Alternatives and the IT Professional: Impacts on Effort and Deviance	Upstate
Zhong, Wei	Using Multi-level Generative Pretrained Transformer (MLGPT) to Generate Diverse and Creative Malware Variants	Upstate